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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shalom Arush’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] have you ever feels ever felt stuck and you didn't know how to get out of a situation well some people feel stuck and they have absolutely no clue of what to do and then there are people that are stuck and they already have a glimmer of an idea of what they should do but they can't get themselves to act why is that the reason is because of what we call arrogance and it's not a person's fault let's go back to the beginning everybody is a product of what happened to the first man and woman when the snake injected his venom into autumn and kava he put into them the belief that they could be like gods and there's a part of us that also believes that where God God forbid and we sometimes act in accordance with the belief that our own opinions should prevail even when they go opposite against the opinions of people that are greater than us that are wiser than us that are holier than us even when they go against the opinions of the Torah which come directly from our Creator this arrogance that's built in unfortunately to us now is not a reason for despair there's a way that we can get out of it there's a way that we can cleanse ourselves from arrogance and we can replace it with humility and when we get to the point of humility we get to the point of truth then we're going to be able to receive the shams face so to speak the light of his face will be able to walk in that light and be able to act in accordance with the truth in accordance with what's good for us and

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1. 0:00[Music] have you ever feels ever felt stuck and you didn't know how to get out…
2. 4:50understand that everything that he's created physically in all of these galaxies is not even one…
3. 9:37would have who decides whether a person would be born healthy or born sickly who determines…
4. 14:38time to think you won't have time to think with your Munna if you don't have…
5. 20:1280 years circling around lost lost lost people I spoke to a person yesterday who is…
6. 25:10that a person needs to do he needs to be able to say with truthful words…
7. 30:07again I believe in the one who created me I'm flying and he still he lands…
8. 35:46sage rebbe nachman of breslev who makes you a promise and great Wiseman don't make promises…
9. 40:28saying oh the people who live today in our generation are not as great as the…
10. 45:20we have to be able to find a spiritual guard I say no I say you…

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